How to Balance Your Feminine & Masculine Energy in Business
One question I was asked recently was - how do you balance your feminine and masculine energy in business?
I LOVE this question because how to connect and work with masculine and feminine energy is something that I’ve been teaching for a long time now.
I’m excited to share my thoughts on how this manifests in business and how you can tap into these energies to create a business that feels super aligned with your purpose and mission and what you’re here to do.
I’ve got so much I could talk about on this topic, so let’s dive in…
What are feminine and masculine energies?
It’s important to first define feminine and masculine energies.
When we’re talking about the feminine & masculine in the energetic sense, we’re not talking about genders.
Masculine and feminine energy is NOT the same as men and women, male and female.
When we talk about THE masculine and THE feminine - we’re describing the duality of energies that exist within and around us...
Day and night
Light and dark
Happy and sad
Subtle and strong
All of us, no matter what gender we identify as - man, woman or outside the gender binary - have this duality of energies within us.
Today I’m calling those energies Feminine and Masculine. In Hinduism, this is the Shiva and Shakti energy or in Ancient Chinese philosophy, the Yin and Yang.
It’s important to also note that just because this duality exists, it doesn’t mean there aren’t shades in between or outside of that duality.
Just because we describe one thing as feminine and another thing as masculine doesn’t mean that there aren’t shades of grey in between.
Masculine energy is...
Practical
Rational
Active
Linear
Physical
Feminine energy is...
Creative
Intuitive
Flowy
Cyclic
Emotional
Now when it comes to masculine and feminine energies - where people get confused is when they start layering patriarchal ideas of what it means to be a “man” and what it means to be a “woman” - onto the definitions of feminine and masculine energy.
For example, we often associate strength with men. The patriarchy teaches us that men are “strong” and women are “weak”.
Firstly, we know this is simply just not true.
Secondly, when we look at feminine and masculine energy - both are strong in different ways. Both are powerful in different ways. This is really important to remember - let’s not allow the patriarchy to tell us otherwise.
How do they manifest in your business if they’re unbalanced?
When you’re too much in your unbalanced feminine, this might look like:
Lots of creative ideas but struggling to bring them into the world
Leaky boundaries
Lack of motivation
Lack of strategy
Feeling stuck in same cycle
Difficulty receiving money or praise
When you’re too much in your unbalanced masculine, this might look like:
All work and no play, often leading to burnout
Lack of inspiration
Achieving goals but never feeling fulfilled
Lack of joy or pleasure
Feeling disconnected from your purpose
Bringing your masculine and feminine energy into balance
The flipside of how the unbalanced masculine and feminine can manifest in your business is what happens when you bring them into balance.
The balanced feminine helps you feel:
Deeply connected with your purpose
Joy and pleasure from working in your business
Inspired, creative, fulfilled
Able to prioritise rest and taking a break
Open to receive with grace and celebrate your wins
The balanced masculine helps you:
Feel motivated to bring your creative ideas to life
Have a clear strategy to move towards your goals
Set and maintain strong boundaries
Ultimately, the masculine holds space to allow the feminine to flow beautifully. You need both in order to have that balance.
How do you bring these into balance?
Sometimes just identifying where it is that you might be out of balance will be enough to give you that clarity and help you start moving in the right direction.
Maybe you currently have lots of creative ideas but can’t seem to actually bring them to life? If so, it might be time to call in more of that action-oriented strategic masculine energy.
Or perhaps you currently feel disconnected from your purpose...or like you have to hustle, hustle, hustle all the time and never rest? If that’s you, it might be time to call in the inwards-focused pleasure-loving feminine energy.
What does that balance look like for me in my business?
When I think about what this looks like for me in my business…I make it a really conscious practice to find that balance.
And I think it’s worth noting that I don’t always get it right!
But what’s most important is really knowing yourself - self-awareness is always the first step. Constantly checking in and being really honest.
If I’m feeling uninspired or unmotivated - I’ll ask myself:
What do I most need right now?
What is going to be most supportive to move out of this space?
As opposed to pushing through and getting more and more frustrated.
And it’s not always a conscious thought like, ‘oh I need to tap into my feminine right now’ OR ‘I need more masculine energy here.’
It’s more just a simple...what do I most need right now?
Sometimes that will be a break away from my computer - which is obviously calling more of that feminine energy in.
Other times it will be that I need to sit down, map out the strategy and get clear on the action items I need to take to help me alleviate any of the anxiety or overwhelm that I might be feeling - so leaning into my masculine to do that.
Ultimately, I think it comes down to having deep self trust and self awareness, and then actually acting on what you know you most need in that moment.
Because balancing the two energies is not the goal in and of itself…the goal is to create a business and a life that you love.
So that when you are working in your business, you feel good. When you achieve your goals, you feel good. And even when you don’t achieve your goals, you still feel good.
The energies that we call masculine and feminine essentially provide a framework to look at where you might be lacking and how you can recalibrate to come back into alignment with who you are and what you desire.
So once you’ve identified where you might be out of balance, the question to ask yourself is: what do you most need right now to bring yourself back into balance?
And then do that.
When it comes down to it, this is what balancing your feminine and masculine looks like. Leaning into your feminine to identify what you most need (trusting your intuition!) and then leaning into your masculine to act on it.
It’s simple, but like so many things, it’s not something you do only once. It’s a continual practice.
And it’s not about always getting it “right” but instead making a commitment to finding that balance as often as you can.
My aim for today’s episode was to give you some food for thought and practical steps forward if you’re feeling out of balance anywhere in your business.
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